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18 April 1998

Issue 2130

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Lethal weapon

Features
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A perfect match

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Supernova

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The dinosaur detectives

Features

Table of contents

News

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Mercury monitor

Coal-fired electricity generating plants in the US will soon have to monitor how much mercury they emit into the air. The Environmental Protection Agency wants to limit mercury pollution, 20 per cent of which comes from coal-fired power plants. But it needs to know how factors such as the type of coal affect emissions, and …

News

Unwelcome guests

News

Throwing a spammer in the works

News

Gullible ducks rescue orphans

News

Arms race

News

Brain invaders

News

Stew pots

News

Earth shattering

News

High-class hormones

News

Technology

Rule of the cool

News

Technology

Rule of the cool

News

Technology

Rule of the cool

News

Technology

Rule of the cool

News

Le clone est mort

News

On the march

News

Divided they fall

News

Hiss and miss

News

Calm before the storm

News

The whole truth

News

Rigged ballot

News

Feds close the net on jumbo TB

News

Top translator

News

In the open

News

Silent witness

News

Real-time reaction

News

Present and correct

News

Biting back

News

Boxing clever produces a clearer picture

News

Out of the woods

News

Technology

Take your chips

News

Technology

Strictly entre nous

News

Technology

Fields without fences

News

In from the cold

News

The deadly dinos that took a dive

News

Split colonies

News

A matter of balance

News

Please fasten your seatbelts

News

Technology

Quantum leap

News

Martian conspiracy theorists lose face

News

Dishing the dirt

News

Early spinal cords were a talking point

News

A marriage made in cyberspace

News

Hacking into Hollywood

News

On the case

News

Cutting edge

News

Back to square one

News

The common cold's sleight of hand

News

Gone to their heads

News

Death in Venice

News

Under fire

News

Opinion

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And God created Darwin

THE battle between scientists and so-called "creation scientists" over the teaching of evolution in America's schools looked like it was over some time ago. After all, the courts have ruled that creation science is not science and that it is illegal to require it to be taught as an alternative to evolution. But what the …

Opinion

You can trust us . . .

Opinion

Features

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Lethal weapon

MAKE a list of the things that are essential for life as we know it, and it's a safe bet that oxygen and light will be up there near the top. But under the right conditions, this combination can turn from a life-giver to a killer that is merciless in its attack—tearing molecules apart, shredding …

Features

A perfect match

Features

Supernova

Features

The dinosaur detectives

Features

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Noteworthy

Measure for Measure by Thomas Levenson has a subsidiary title that says it's about how music and science together have explored the Universe. This seems a dubious proposition, despite the obvious connection between music and mathematics. Once past Pythagoras and the music of the spheres, the partnership seems less arm-in-arm than handcuffed. Nevertheless, both activities …

Books & Arts

Celebration

Books & Arts

Wrestling match

Books & Arts

Inner beauty

Books & Arts

The story so far

Books & Arts

Modern times

Books & Arts

Biota taxed to the limit

Forum

All plumbed in

Forum

Dead men do tell tales

Books & Arts

Improbable, irreproducible and invaluable

Books & Arts

Work ethics

Books & Arts

The sea, the sea

Books & Arts

from Oxford

Books & Arts

Collected works

Books & Arts

Beyond reasonable doubt

Forum

Forum

Regulars

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Feedback

WE ARE not alone in finding the UK-Info CD-ROM phone directory well nigh useless (Feedback, 7 March) . Because BT claims monopoly on its database of phone numbers, UK-Info has to get its information from other sources, and this leaves gaping holes in the CD's data—as many readers have corroborated. UK-Info now has a website …

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